Neeraj Dotel, CEO of Quadio Labs, said under this partnership, patients can walk into any one of the two hospital facilities in Mumbai and avail audiometry services via his company's audiologists over the Internet.

"Patients visiting the hospital would be connected to Quadio's team of audiologists sitting in Pune through a computer, following which they would remotely conduct the audiometry," Dotel said in a statement here.

He said net audiometry empowers audiologists to break the physical barriers of a brick and mortar hearing clinic and reach patients across geographies to conduct audiometry test for hearing impaired individuals.

According to WHO, hearing loss affects over 10% of India's population of over 1.2 billion and is the second most debilitating disability in the country.

Dotel said as part of the partnership, Apollo Spectra will also be reaching to institutions like schools, traffic police personnel, bus drivers via 'net audiometry' to help detect any cases of congenital or other adult hearing loss and increase awareness.